Huntsville gazette., 1887-05-07
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS

iuty on foreign oranges raised.
A tornado swept over Natchez, Miss, a few
evenings since, unroofng many dwellings
md doing much damage. The whole front
If the City Hospital was destroyed, as
was also the dormitory Of the Baptist
College. In Vidalia, the Methodist
Church, the engine-house and several
smaller buildings We're blown down. The
tamage from the storm was great, but
there was no loss of life
Hamden Fuqua, son of j. A. Fuqua, Of
0wensboro, KY, swallowed a tin bird
call few days ago, which passed through
The windpipe and lodged in the upper por-
ton of his lungs. The local physicians
exhausted their skill in attempts to dis
lodge the whistle, but every thing short
Of an operation failed. DR.. Roberts, of
Louisville, was telegraphed for, and an
operation was performed. The boys chest
was opened and the whistle located, but
all efforts to remove it were futile. The
boy will die.
The trial of eX-State Treasurer Vincent
of Alabama, charged with embezzlement
in thirty-nin cases, has been continued
until the July term of the Circuit Court at
Montgomery. Owing to the absence Of
Mr.. Duncan Crawford, an important State
witness, who is i'll and confined to his
bed, a continuance was asked by counsel
for the prosecution and Judge Arlington
granted it. Vincent and his counsel an
nounced ready for trial, but finally agreed
to the continuance.
Mrs. Beckwith, wife of Rt. Rev. j. w.
Beckwith, Bishop of Georgia, died in At
lanta q few days ago.
The negro, Albert Robert Robinson, who
was to be hanged at Tyler, Tex, May 20
died few nights ago.
Three children Of j. r. Hall were lefi
alone in the house near Bonham, Tex,
few days since. The house was burned,
and all perlshed.
The committee in charge of the decora-
ton of the graves Of Federal soldiers at
the National Cemetery, near Nashville
Tenn, has invited Senator Sherman TO de,
liver the oration. Should he decline,
Governor Foraker of Ohio will be asked
to speak.
A reception was rendered to Miss Win
ME Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis,
by the citizens of Chattanooga at the Stan
ton Hotel few nights ago. Over five
hundred invitations were issued, and the
reception was attended by the leading cit
liens of the city. Miss Davis will return
| to her home in Beauvoir this week.
| Governor Gordon of Georgia is su fering
acutely from .an attack of intercostal
| neuralgia which prostrated him while de-
| livering his address before the Confeder-
| ate Survivors Association at Augusta
Colonel Phinizy, to whose house he was
taken, says that although Governor Cor
don was suffering from the effects OF
morphine, he was not considered in any
great danger.
| Grenada. Miss, was thrown into con-
siderable excitement few days ago
when Captain W. D. Fowler, of that city,
| a travelling salesman for Schmidt a. Zieg.
| ler, of New Orleans, shot and fatally
| wounded Rev G. F. Stivers, of the Epls.
copal Church. The shooting occurred in
| Fowler's own house. The cause is not
known, as neither party have said any
thing about the affair. Stivers, expecting
| to die, made a confession in which he
stated that the shooting was justifiable
| and he did not want Captain Fowler pun
ished.
Louisville whisky men have subscribed
$4,000 to fight prohibition in Texas.
| Hot Springs, Ark, has been making the
| gambling element, who rnfest that valley
as thick as it it is said fiddlers are it
hades, ''mark time'' so disgustingly con-
tinuously for the past week or two, thas
| they are pouring out OF town ike raI2
| leaving a sinking ship.
| A little girl aged about five years, the
daughter of Ezra Jenkins, of Henderson
KY, fell into an old cistern and was
drowned a few days ago. The little one
was wandering around while her mother
was picking greens for dinner.
Forty-three thousand bales of cotton
have been compressed and shipped from
| T., q THIRTY
thousand dollars have been subscribed by
the citizens to aid in building cotton fac
tory in that ci3y.
| Fiuis Cover, a cousin of Frank and
Jesse James, of Missouri, has been con.
| yicted in the United States Circuit Court
at Nashville, Tenn, of robbing the mailT
between Lawrenceburg and Waynesboro
He was given two years in the Nationa'
prison at Albany, N. Y.
Abe Littlejohn, well-to-do white farm
er, and wife, living near Clinton, Ala.
were burned in their dwelling few nights
ago Subsequent Investigations lead to
the conclus ion that the aged couple were
murdered and the dwelling burned over
the dead bodies to conceal the crime.
w. L. Hockaday, a travelling man en-
ployed by the house Of Goodbar. Love &
| Co., of Memphis, Tenn, attempted suicide
few days ago by taking belladonna.
Standing in the rear door OF the fir m s
place of business, he suddenly raised a
vial to his lips, and exclaiming: "Fll be
dead man in twenty minutes ~ drank
the contents Medical aid was summoned
and he was brought around after several
hours of agony.
Jno. Tagert Jr., who lives in the north
west part of Morris County, Tex, started
few days ago with a load of cotton-seed
to his farm, when it is supposed that his
team became frightened and ran away,
throwing him from the wagon against a
tree, killing him instantly. An old freed
man, who heard the team running, went to
him Immediately, but when he reached
him Tagert was breathing his last.
A young Hebrew stock trader, together
with a horse he had just purchased, was
drowned in Salt river, near West Point,
KY, few days ago, while endeavoring to
ford the swollen stream. His body was
recovered by some farmers who witnessed
| the accident.
/ The Bishops of the colored Methodist
Episcopal Church met last week at Nash.
| yllle Tenn, and arranged their plan OF